Homemade dried sweet potatoes are as simple as that, but there are still some details and skills to master if you want to dry high-quality pure natural dried sweet potatoes.
Details and skills of homemade dried sweet potatoes
1, almost all varieties of sweet potato can be used to dry sweet potato, but the sweet potato with red skin and red heart is the best taste, and the dried sweet potato is sweet enough. Of course, you can also choose other varieties of sweet potato, such as sweet potato with yellow skin and yellow heart or purple potato. You can try any sweet potato that you think is sweet enough.
2. The sweet potato just dug out of the ground is not suitable for drying the dried sweet potato, because the starch in this sweet potato has not been fully saccharified and the dried sweet potato is not sweet enough. Let it dry in a ventilated place indoors for a period of time, so that when the surface is slightly soft, it is very sweet to use them as dried sweet potatoes. It would be better if it could be stored in the cellar for two to three months.
3. Wash the prepared sweet potato, then peel it, cut it into thick slices, and steam it on the pot. If you plan to cut into strips to dry, cut the thick slices into about 1cm, and steam them before replacing them with thick strips. If you plan to cut it into thin slices to dry, cut it thinner and don't change the knife after steaming.
4. Pay attention to the scale when steaming sweet potatoes. If the steamed sweet potato is rotten to mud, it will definitely not work. It must be ripe but not rotten, and can stand the knife cutting and holding.
5. Put the cut sweet potato slices or sweet potato strips on the bamboo plaque and put them in a sunny and well-ventilated place to start drying. Remember to turn them every two or three hours until they are soft and hard and ready to eat.
6. It usually takes two to three days to dry. If it rains halfway, take it back and dry it in a microwave oven or oven. Before drying, you can also use a microwave oven or oven to dry it a little, which can greatly shorten the drying time.